First, let me be fair to Anne Hathaway. It’s not like she wore this outfit on a red carpet or to any kind of formal event. She’s allowed to wear whatever she wants in her private life. Anne and her husband Adam Shulman were photographed having lunch with friends at Astro Burger in LA over the weekend. Anne recently stepped out for some rare public appearances (for charity!), and it’s almost like the paparazzi just remembered that she exists. She’s been keeping a low profile for months, which I like and appreciate. So, what I’m saying is that I’m still largely giving Annie a pass.
That being said, this outfit!!! THOSE PANTS. I can totally see how every woman owns a pair of pants like this – you buy the pants because you’re all, “OMG, so comfortable and why not wear more wide-legged stuff? They’re so chic and a lovely linen blend and they’ll go with half my shirts! I’ll look like a J.Crew ad!” And then you wear them out one day and you realize that the pants are the devil. The linen blend means that they don’t hang properly and that they wrinkle in two seconds. And you realize that from the back, your ass looks super-wide. And you never wear them again. They grow dust in the back of your closet. You pull them out once or twice a year, briefly recalling your dream of looking like a chic J.Crew ad. And then you remember.
Maybe I’m reading too much into the pants. Maybe this is just Anne’s subliminal reaction to seeing her husband’s near-constant love for skinny jeans. He wears the skinny jeans in the family, she wears the palazzo pants in the family.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I think you have to be 11 feet tall to really make pants like those work.
And now I am craving Astro Burger. Their veggie burger is fabulous, or at least it was 10 years ago…
those pants are awful
Wow. From the back those are definitely…. not good.
Yeah. From the back… I feel secondhand embarrassment for her. Yikes.
Just from the back? Did you see the front? Those pants really needed a good ironing before she went out in them, and she should have smoothed them out when sitting down.
That aside, she looks a bit like a French clown. I think they would be better if they were slightly narrower, and perhaps a bit more tapered between the hip and the knees.
All they needed was a bit of tailoring! You could have looked great, Anne! Why!?
That’s just what the pants want you to think; no one can actually look great in those pants unless they’re tailored into a completely different pair of pants.
There is no amount of ironing, at any point, that can make linen NOT be wrinkled – unless you stand up all the time, trying not to walk too energetically, because the creases will appear in no time at all.
The only thing that helps somewhat is lining – which, of course, is next to impossible with this style of pants.
Mmmnope they can work. They just need to be tailored.
As for linen, Mel … I had a beautiful jacket I had to toss because after one too many heavy nights I’d wrinkled it so badly the crinkles couldn’t come out no matter what I did. All linen needs is a little bit of (preventative) care. 🙂
I’m all for comfort but dang those pants are bad.
She would look better in trackies/sweats/whatever you want to call them.
Love her, but those pants are dire.
All that’s missing are her big clown shoes.
That made me laugh. So true.
LOL
Hahaha! 😉
Yes, the pants are quite unfortunate.
And now I will be craving Astroburger all damn day, thanks!
why is her husband so skinny?
I thought the little skinny dude was an assistant!
The material is all wrong. I don’t like the wrinkle look at all. But she looks comfi and that’s fine with me.
How can anyone be comfortable with the major wedgie?
DAYUM. I was prepared to defend this a little but this isn’t even a matter of personal taste, it’s SO fug.
Yeaahhhhh, linen is awful unless you plan on never sitting down or bending forward or anything like that. I stopped wearing linen years ago because it just wrinkles so damned easily. (And those horrid pants prove my point, lol).
Yeah, the pants are pretty bad, but I’m sure even Anne will agree they were worth wearing because they inspired the artistry of @Kaiser’s second paragraph.
I love palazzo pants and they actually do look good on me so I was prepared to defend these.
Uh, no.
The color is heinously boring and the butt wedge from the rear view makes my hindquarters cringe with sympathy and a twinge of fear.
Bleh.
Now I’m paranoid that I look like that in all of my pants. And my butt is way bigger than hers.
Thanks Obama!
Wearing a small heel or wedge shoe will make those pants look so different ladies. Also, get them longer than ankle length and they can be very wearable! The fabric here though, is tragic for a palazzo pant.
Zbornak Syndrome, I think that’s the problem. They are cut right at the ankle when they should probably be an inch longer. Wide leg pants that are essentially floods are a disaster and should be banished.
Whipmyhair: Love your sense of comedy!
The whole “outfit” makes no sense with the knit hat and summer pants. It could have worked if the pants were longer, along with the right blouse and sandals.
I’m sick of those pants! Why would you do that to yourself?
I LOVE those pants – but they waaaaaay too short, which makes it all look dorky. Plus, a knitted cap when it’s warm? She obvsly likes wide legged pants – she should get some that fit. With her kind of $ she could have her clothes custom tailored……….
I actually don’t get Hathahate at all…but I do have to admit that, for such a beautiful woman, Anne Hathaway has a tragic sense of style. And this is coming from a through and through jeans-and-t-shirt girl.
Oh my gosh… Really bad! Wonder if she looked in a mirror? I have to say equally as bad is the hat? Good grief, just wasn’t her day at all.
Forget her. I couldn’t take my eyes away from the husband’s frank and beans squished into those jeans. I was mesmerized and not in a good way. Yuk.
I hate those freaking hats on women. She tries so hard to look “I don’t care” that she looks I don’t care but in a bad way. BTW, it’s after Labor day – time to put away the linen. UGH… she’s a mess.
I hate those hats on anyone.
And why do they still make clothes out of linen, anyway? It ALWAYS wrinkles and ends up looking sloppy.
Labour Day deadlines are so passe. 😛
But really, they’re outdated. You don’t have to stick so rigidly to them anymore.
her husband gives me gay vibes.
I’m with you on that. I was thinking is he her husband or her “best friend”/ stylist?
You’re wrong, ladies. My gaydar is a finely tuned instrument. That man is not gay.
Huge gay vibe. I’ve always thought that from the first ‘girls cardigan’ pictures that I saw of him. Look at the last picture. There isn’t a hetero guy on the planet who would kick his heels up when hugging goodbye…just sayin’
I don’t know if the pictures are in order or not, but it looks like he was having a problem with that shoe. He’s adjusting that same leg in another picture. Not saying I DON’T get a gay vibe, but I think it may explain his foot sticking out like that.
Looks like she’s wearing a potato sack.
Ugh, linen blend is the WORST!
Her husband sticking his leg up while hugging another man makes me giggle. If he is gay, he should own it instead of being photographed in such an awkward position.
Maybe with a different shirt NOT a button down, and flat sandles it wouldnt be quite so hideous?
The worst part is, im not sure this is about comfort. I think she feels very high fashion in this mess.
Throw those pants in the trash, Anne.
No. Better yet burn them.
In case some poor homeless person should find them.
I had to poke in and take a look because I thought you must be mistaken in saying “palazzo pants’ but NOPE you weren’t. Dear God Anne Hathaway! You have zero taste. I’m sure they are comfortable but honestly I’m sure there are hundreds, no make that thousands, of pairs of pants that are equally, if not more comfortable. Awful, awful, awful!
OMG! So. Very. AWFUL. That last picture says it all! I have a pair of linen pants, too. I always bring them out in the spring and think to myself-oh, these pants are so cute and SO comfortable, why do I not wear them more often?? I think I was just wearing the wrong shirt with them. NO, wait. They make me look like a fat cow no matter WHAT shirt I wear with them! Then I throw them in the very back of my closet. I guarantee you I will not make the same mistake next year!
the pants do not fit her.
the rise is way too short. its why the waist looks like its pulling apart and the back looks jammed up her crack.
the length isn’t helping.
the width of the bottom hem should never be bigger than your foot.
doesn’t she have access to fashion people that understand fit? or like her?
kaiser, you are so funny. i bet your palazzo pants fit better than annE’s and look very Jcrew.
There is nothing cute about her, she’s tragic all the way.
i bet she was going for a katherine hepburn strong feminine look
He looks like her child with those skinny jeans he wears. It’s never a good look.
She could literally fit one skinny jean’d hipster husband in each palazzo pant leg.
Omg Kaiser, it’s like you broke into my house, scoped out my closet, and went right to the bigass ten year old linen palazzo pants I can’t seem to part with. I swear I KNOW you’re right, I should just toss them, but each year when I assess my wardrobe they cry out to me and I try them on yet again in the vain hope that THIS time they will make me look insoucient like Grace Kelly or some haughty J. Crew babe. And each time I slip them on, I realize yet again that what they actually look like is a humungous wad of that brown butcher paper that online merchants pack stuff with sometimes, and what I look like IN them is a stuffed bear caught in the machinery at a recycling plant. Tomorrow the pants are gone. That is all.
The pants are definitely wrinkled and also unflattering, especially with her tennis shoes….it would be easy to find another very comfortable style and toss those, or wear a long skirt or dress, or boots and dress, or any number of other comfortable choices exist rather than these.
I’m not sure whether or not Hathy’s hubby is gay or not but I would put all my life savings on the fact they are not in a sexual relationship of any kind.
I am expert at reading body language and there is nary a spark or flare between these two…
Those are the ugliest f-in’ pants I’ve ever seen!